Tasks

Webquest

This task has five parts:

Introduction to the Middle East [week 5]
History of the Middle East from 1900 to 1945 [week 6]
An examination of western perspectives towards the Middle East [week 7]
Case study of one Middle Eastern country from 1945-2000 (SL may choose 1945-1979) [week 10]
Short biography of an (ordinary) individual living in a Middle Eastern country (there may be a little crossover into the twenty-first century). HL Only [week 8]

Full task in the document below, includes marking criteria and full bibliography.

Some links for biographies:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/world/middleeast/14gaza.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&emc=eta1
Has a number of people - use general details with personal info to create bio. See also the link under Gaza of the entrepreneur and civil servant for examples of daily life issues.

Women in the Middle East (includes a few names of famous women writers & politicians and covers a range of 'daily life' sections such as marriage & family, the veil and education.
http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/files/Women_in_the_Middle_East.

More on Gaza, daily life:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/world/middleeast/14gaza.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&emc=eta1
Daily life in Gaza, article in NY Times, 2010

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/07/14/world/middleeast/1247468440263/growing-up-in-gaza.html
Growing up in Gaza, video
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/07/12/life_in_gaza
General article on daily life in Gaza

Remember that you also need to annotate your sources apart from the ones I have done on the task sheet.

1. The First World War in the Middle East	Falconer, Catherine	Lana Wilding	Graham, Taylor
2. The peace settlements and the mandate system	Aitken, Sophie	Sim, Gavin
3. Palestine up to 1939	Brown, Imogen	Walker, Hugh	Lew, Leann
4. The Second World War and the creation of the State of Israel	Cleland, Kayle	Leong, Sarah	Harris, Ebony
5. Iran and Reza Khan, 1924-41	Beale, Sean	Ryan-Worth, Tahlia	Posney, Beth
6. Ataturk and the Turkish Republic	Catalano, Amelia	Cheung, Karina